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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy;
- Example: "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"
- Example: "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot (`ambagious' is archaic);
[syn: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Circumlocutory \Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry\, a.
   Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. --Shenstone.
   [1913 Webster]

         The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory
         order.                                   --Chambers's
                                                  Journal.
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